The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

Directed by Delbert Mann Starring Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight Tagline: No motion picture ever lit up so warmly The drama centers on Rubin Flood, who loses his job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his preteen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies. He tries to find comfort with a friend,